Depop fees explained: what it takes in 2026

Depop no longer charges a selling fee to sellers based in the UK, the US or Australia, so what a British or American seller actually pays on a sale is the payment processing fee: 2.9% + £0.30 in the UK and 3.3% + $0.45 in the US. Two other charges can appear on a receipt — a 12% boosting fee when the sale came from a boosted listing, and a marketplace fee that the buyer pays rather than you. This guide takes each one as Depop publishes it, with worked examples computed by the same engine as the Depop fee calculator. Every rate below is quoted from Depop's Seller fees and charges article and was verified on 3 September 2026.

What Depop charges a seller

Depop's schedule is short. There is one mandatory fee for a UK or US seller, one optional one, and one that is not the seller's at all.

Each fee line is rounded to the nearest penny or cent on its own, the way Depop bills it, and what you keep is the sale minus the sum of those lines. The methodology explains the arithmetic in full.

For a US seller, the fee on $100.00 is $3.75 and you keep $96.25, an effective rate of 3.75%. For a UK seller, the fee on £100.00 is £3.20 and you keep £96.80, an effective rate of 3.2%.

The selling fee is gone, but only in three countries

Depop's fee table states plainly that no Depop selling fees will be charged to sellers based in the UK, the US or Australia. That is the whole rule: there is no threshold, no shop tier and no category that brings it back.

It is worth being precise about who "based in" covers, because the 10% selling fee has not disappeared everywhere. Depop still charges 10% on all sales to sellers outside those three markets who sell in a currency other than GBP, USD or AUD, and those sellers are paid through PayPal instead of Depop Payments, so their processing fee is PayPal's rather than Depop's. If you moved country and kept your account, the market your account is registered in is what decides.

The payment processing fee

This is the line every UK and US sale carries. Depop Payments runs on Stripe, and Depop charges 2.9% + £0.30 for a UK seller and 3.3% + $0.45 for a US seller.

The base matters more than sellers expect. Depop states that the processing fee is charged on the item sale price plus shipping costs and any applicable taxes — not on the item price alone. If you charge for postage, the percentage is taken on the item price and the postage together, and on any tax on top. Enter the whole amount the buyer pays you into the calculator and the figure will match your receipt.

The fixed part is what makes small sales expensive. It does not shrink with the order: a £100 sale and a £5 sale each carry the same £0.30, so the smaller one gives up far more of its value — and small is most of Depop.

For a £12.00 UK sale, the fee on £12.00 is £0.65 and you keep £11.35, an effective rate of 5.42%.

The effective rate there is far higher than on a £100.00 sale, which is the strongest argument on Depop for bundling several items into one transaction rather than selling them as separate orders.

The boosting fee

Boosted Listings is Depop's advertising service, and the fee for it is 12% in the UK and the US — 8% elsewhere — charged on the item sale price excluding taxes, plus any shipping cost when you arrange the shipping yourself rather than buying a Depop Shipping label. It applies to new listings from 23 March 2026.

Three details decide whether you owe it:

• It is only charged when the boosted listing sells. Displaying, viewing and clicking cost nothing.
• A view counts for 28 days. If a buyer saw the boosted version of your listing, marked with the Boosted label, and buys within 28 days, the fee applies — even if you stopped boosting in between, and even if they did not click.
• Boosting your whole shop is the same rate as boosting one listing, and every new listing you create while the shop is boosted is boosted too.

For a boosted US sale, the fee on $100.00 is $15.75 ($3.75 payment processing fee plus $12.00 boosted listing fee) and you keep $84.25, an effective rate of 15.75%.

That is the number to weigh against the extra sales boosting brings, and it is why the calculator keeps the boost as a switch rather than folding it into the headline rate: most sales are not boosted, and the two cases are far apart.

The marketplace fee belongs to the buyer

Depop charges buyers in the UK and the US a marketplace fee at checkout of up to 5% of the item purchase price plus a fixed amount of up to £1 or $1, excluding taxes and shipping. The exact amount is shown to the buyer during checkout, and it is refunded in full if the item is refunded.

It is listed on the Depop fee calculator because it changes what a buyer pays for your item, which changes how your price looks next to someone else's. It is never deducted from your proceeds, so the calculator shows it as a buyer-paid line and never subtracts it from your net. If you have seen a figure claiming Depop takes "5% plus a pound" from sellers, this is the fee being misread.

Pricing to net a target

Because the fee is a percentage plus a fixed amount, you cannot reach a target payout by adding the percentage to the figure you want: the percentage is charged on the whole price, including the part that covers the fee. To keep £50.00 you charge £51.80, and the fee is £1.80. The calculator's "I want to net" mode solves this for any amount, market and boosting choice, finding the smallest price whose payout lands within a penny of your target.

Keeping the bill down, honestly

Depop's percentages are not negotiable, but three things genuinely change the total.

Bundle where you can. The fixed 30p or 45c is charged once per transaction, not once per item, so two items sold as one bundle carry one fixed fee instead of two.

Use Depop Shipping labels if you boost. The boosting fee is charged on the item price plus shipping only when you arrange the shipping yourself; Depop states that boosting fees are not charged on Depop Shipping labels.

Be deliberate about boosting. At 12%, a boosted sale costs several times what an unboosted one does. That can still be worth it for stock that is not moving, but it is not a setting to leave on by default across a whole shop.

What does not help is quoting postage separately: processing is charged on the item price plus shipping either way, so moving money between the two lines changes nothing.

How Depop compares

Depop is unusually cheap for an unboosted sale because the selling fee is gone; what remains is close to a bare payment processor's rate. The marketplaces it competes with still charge a commission on top of processing — see the eBay fee calculator and the Etsy fee calculator for those, and the Etsy fees guide for how a stacked schedule adds up. Side-by-side compare pages are on the way.

What this guide leaves out

Australia is out of scope here. Depop publishes an Australian processing rate and an 8% boosting fee, and a separate marketplace fee policy for Australian buyers, and none of it is modelled by this calculator. Sellers outside the UK, US and Australia are also out of scope: they pay the 10% selling fee and PayPal's processing rate, which varies by location and account setup.

The calculator models the fees charged against a single sale. It does not model refunds and chargebacks (Depop reverses all fees when a sale is refunded), VAT or sales tax that Depop collects and remits, shipping labels bought through Depop, payout timing, or anything specific to your account.

One number here is disputed by Depop's own documentation. Its Boosted Listings Policy works through a UK example using a payment processing fee of 3.3% + £0.45 — the US rate with a pound sign — while the Seller fees and charges table states 2.9% + £0.30 for the UK. This site follows the fee table, and marks the Depop schedule medium confidence because of the conflict. If Depop's receipt disagrees with the calculator on a UK sale, that is the likeliest reason, and it is worth reporting.

When these rates last changed

The current schedule is recorded as effective from 23 March 2026, the date Depop's Boosted Listings Policy states for the 12% fee on new listings. The marketplace fee has applied since 15 April 2024 in the UK and 18 July 2024 in the US. The Depop fee changelog holds one entry so far, the initial verification; every later change is added there with the date and the rule affected, and the schedule is re-verified at least every 60 days.

Frequently asked questions

Does Depop take a cut of shipping?

Yes, for the processing fee: Depop states it is charged on the item sale price plus shipping costs and any applicable taxes. The boosting fee is different — it is charged on the item price excluding tax, plus shipping only if you arranged the shipping yourself.

Do I pay the fee if the buyer refunds?

No. Depop states that if your sale is refunded, all fees — the selling fee, payment processing fee and boosting fee — are reversed too. With Depop Payments that happens automatically.

How are fees taken?

If you sell using Depop Payments, all fees are deducted before your sale proceeds are paid to your bank account, so the figure that lands is already net. Sellers paid through PayPal instead see the selling fee and PayPal's processing fee deducted as separate charges.

Why is my fee higher than the calculator says?

The usual reasons are a boosted listing you had forgotten about, shipping and tax being included in the processing base, or a bundle counted as one transaction rather than several. The Depop fee calculator covers a single sale; your Depop Balance receipt covers everything else.

Where do these numbers come from?

Every figure is quoted from Depop's own Help Centre — the Seller fees and charges table, the Marketplace fee article and the Boosted Listings Policy — saved as a dated snapshot and checked by a person. The schedule is quoted line by line, with the verbatim source text behind every rule, in the calculator's fee table for anyone who wants to check the work.